Tamil National Alliance

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is a Tamil nationalist political alliance in Sri Lanka that was formed on 20 January 2001. It was formed by a group of moderate Tamil nationalist parties and former militant groups, and it initially supported self-determination in the autonomous state of Tamil Eelam. It supported negotiations with the Tamil Tigers to end the Sri Lankan Civil War, and the alliance was considered a political proxy of the Tamil Tigers, which selected some of its candidates. After the end of the civil war, the TNA stated that it was instead ready for regional self-rule. However, the TNA continued to be persecuted, with three of its sitting MPs being murdered by government-backed rival groups.